Installing an internal hard drive is one of the more straightforward upgrades out there—and is often a better option than using external drives that may be dropped or misplaced. The process usually ...

Formatting a hard drive along with the install of a new OS is the best option. The vast majority of operating system installations provide a "format" option as part of the installation process.

Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store ...

If you’re looking to upgrade your traditional hard drive to a solid-state drive, but don’t want to start everything back up from scratch, here’s how to transfer the data from your old hard drive.

Making some space If you want to install Ubuntu, first make sure you have more than one NTFS partition (one of them consisting of Windows). If this is not the case, you have to create free space on ...